From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: "R. Diez" <rdiezmail-buspirate@yahoo.de>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to diff 2 file revisions with gitk
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:09:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51129C42.4040207@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360166273.33888.YahooMailNeo@web171204.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
Am 06.02.2013 16:57, schrieb R. Diez:
> I would like to start gitk, select with the mouse 2
> revisions of some file and then compare them, hopefully with an external
> diff tool, very much like I am used to with WinCVS.
>
> The closest I
> got is to start gitk with a filename as an argument, in order to
> restrict the log to that one file. Then I right-click on a commit (a
> file revision) and choose "Mark this commit". However, if I right-click
> on another commit and choose "Compare with marked commit", I get a full
> commit diff with all files, and not just the file I specified on the
> command-line arguments.
Edit->Preferences, tick 'Limit diff to listed paths'.
-- Hannes
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2013-02-06 15:57 ` How to diff 2 file revisions with gitk R. Diez
2013-02-06 18:09 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2013-02-08 6:21 ` Sitaram Chamarty
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